Then again the articles and documentaries I've seen of the subject might be fake, so I just can't be absolutely sure.
I bet if we whisked you to the moon, cracked your helmet, in the last 10 seconds of life you had you would go "oh, shit! This is the fucking moon! -- ARRRRGGGGG".
The odds of you surviving? Absolutely zero.
It ain't philosophy, dude, it's science (otherwise we'd still believe that heavy objects fall faster than light ones).
Either use "to whom you talk" or "who you talk to", but don't half-assed try to make yourself look English compliant when you just end up butchering the language.
Next we'll get into how spelling is a key component of communication and whether Times-Roman is far more readable than Courier...
This is Slashdot, not "where to bitch about other people's use of the English language".
But there was someone there: the gamer. Now, the fact the WoW is full of dull boring sequences because the designers are, well to put it correctly, not very imaginative, is the problem.
Were they far more imaginative, the restrictions of the game WOULD BE THE GAME, not TOS. But because they can't conceive of a complex world, they have to come up with a complex TOS.
Unattended means someone is not there - not that someone is there and is boringly pushing a button (and so what if they are?). Seems to me that Blizzard is confusing people with bots.
Man, if there were EVER an article that Slashdotters weren't going to RTFA...
Why would I want to read the fucking advertisement?
Microsoft is on 95% of the computers and only 5% of the people who use it say they actually love it. The other 90% bitch and moan that there isn't an alternative. When you ask what they want to see, they say "something like Windows".
Really. I worked in an international company that hated the damn OS, but was a Microsoft-only shop. How screwed up is that?
How is this a step back?
I guess the obvious escapes some people.
The Apollo fire was caused by bad wiring and the unfortunate use of a pure oxygen atmosphere, not the booster.
No, it was caused by the SAME BAD REASONING. The same reasoning that argues that "testing for success" is what Q/A is about (sigh).
The Apollo 13 near disaster was again not a design flaw, but a miscommunication over a changed configuration when a service module was mishandled by North American.
That IS a design flaw (communication is required for design). Worse, the problems they had with oxygen had to do with scrubbers being of two different shapes (round vs. not quite so round).
The Shuttle's problems are indeed design flaws. It appears that with today's rocket technologies we cannot build a booster that will not shed debris during launch. Couple that with an exposed reentry vehicle and you have a LCAS event waiting to happen. All to make the pilots happy that they can "land" their brick on a runway.
And yet everyone held their breath during the Gemini and Apollo reentry during the blackouts. Why? Because the fear of a catastrophe.
Everyone seems to either a) not remember or b) not have been born to recall that those were not the days of "safe space travel". A helluva LOT OF MONEY went into NASA back them (adjusted for inflation).
Imagine if instead of the shuttle we had focused on a reusable crew vehicle to put on top of a constantly evolving Saturn IB, while using the occasional Saturn V to loft things like space stations into orbit.
Imagine that we continued to slash NASA's budget in the same way -- how many of those Saturn V's would have blown up on the pad? Or finally said "kill NASA -- it is too expensive". The point of the shuttle was to REDUCE costs.
I think it is safe to say that we would have far more hours in orbit than we do today.
I think you are drawing conclusions based on fantasy.
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This design will be inexpensive (NASA is merely redirecting the shuttle buget plus a little extra), reuse existing components/industry, will be more powerful than any rocket ever designed, and will finally give us back the ability to put USEFUL stuff into space.
If I recall, the biggest bitch people had at the time of the Saturn V was how MUCH it cost to put stuff into orbit. The result was the shuttle was supposed to reduce this cost.
But, instead of using boosters WITHOUT gaskets (which could be built down the road) someone decided they needed pork. So the boosters had to be built in sections. Which required gaskets. Which resulted in the first big boom.
I remember when Grissom, White, and Chaffee died in the Apollo fire. I remember Apollo 13 (another near disaster). Don't tell me that this is a safer design. Heck, let's just start using statistics to lie with while we're at it.
And yes, it is a step back. NASA, as far as I'm concerned, is dead. It was supposed to be civilian, but has been slowly sucked into being part of the military.
Hint: that's not a great way to gain credibility at the outset. Go ask your average young doctor how much they're paying in student loans, and see if the doctors' parking lot is really that different than the teachers' lot at the local high school.
The point of the headline was to get your attention (see, it got it?)...
As for your points, yes, my Doc tells me quite a lot about her practice and how the insurance companies screw them and how they are overworked. And you know what? I do believe her.
But I also know that there are many docs out there who shouldn't be... like the one that butchered my Grandmothers eye for routine cataract surgery. Or the one that stuffed a far sighted lens in my mom's eye when she is near sighted. Sorry, those folks are a menace to society. And there are worse...
I suspect that you do not feel that you are overpaid (in which case that headline should not offend). But like many fields, I know people in my field that ARE overpaid. As I am sure you do. And perhaps I am jumping to conclusions, but I suspect anyone who has the time to worry about their IMAGE is someone who is overpaid...
Agreed. But Apple got hurt by their attempt with IBM to design a new CPU, especially when that CPU never took off except in Apple-built computers.
Actually, this was a brilliant business move at the time. Apple needed a new processor and the 68K was not going to cut it. For those who were still in the womb at the time, even Intel was trying to move towards a RISC processor (the x86 was a hack then and it is still a hack).
Even MS couldn't decide who to support - Sparc? Alpha? This PPC? Rumors had it that MS had begun transitioning to the PPC (mostly to kill any hopes of Rhapsody ever turning into a hit)... but didn't happen.
So, now we are back to the x86. Similar nasty design that a friend of mine in college (when the 8086 was first announced said "hey, come look at this abortion from Intel"). Going from an orthoganal instruction set to a non-orthoganal one... basically, it is a step backwards in evolution (if you look at computers having some form of evolution).
Perhaps in the future it will be looked at much as the panda's thumb - not really much of a thumb, but close enough... As for the PPC (with apologies to Douglas Adams) looks like a fish, steers like a fish, moves like a cow... sigh...
After all, he was the guy who lost to Odysseus fighting over Achilles armor (you know, of the heel fame?). Later, he went mad and began slaughtering cows. He then killed himself.
Sadly, most people will think "what you cut dope with"...
Screw ergonomics! My Nintendo thumb be damned! Here is my list of MUST-HAVE'S:
1. Clock (if it has power, it HAS to have a clock) 2. MP3 player 3. Phone 4. GPS (I'm sick and tired of saying "I'm at the Krispy Chiken" I want the goddamn phone/pda/mp3 player to tell them for me) 5. PDA - no wait, I mean PDS - personal digital secretary. That means if I'm screwing around on my wife, I want the goddamn thing to LIE for me. 6. 1600x1200 resolution. I'm sick of these dinky screens. 7. Surround sound. It's in the works. I want it now. 8. Stapler. I don't have one. The ankle-jerks here are too damn cheap to buy me one. I don't need one, but everyone else has one. 9. Alarm clock. A GOOD alarm clock. Not one of those dinky little "weee weee" ones that only wake you up if the fucker is glued to your ear. 10. CD/DVD player. Look, if you can put the damn 1600x1200 screen in, the CD/DVD should be a freakin' piece of cake. 11. It should fit in my pocket. No, not one of those giant coat pockets, but my shirt pocket.
Now, I'm not asking for ALL of these in the first version (except for the PDS - man, I gotta get somethin' that will lie like a mother for me).
12. Encryption. What the fuck is it that we have lameass encryption on phones? I want something better than the NSA can crack. Shiiit.
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Then again the articles and documentaries I've seen of the subject might be fake, so I just can't be absolutely sure.
I bet if we whisked you to the moon, cracked your helmet, in the last 10 seconds of life you had you would go "oh, shit! This is the fucking moon! -- ARRRRGGGGG".
The odds of you surviving? Absolutely zero.
It ain't philosophy, dude, it's science (otherwise we'd still believe that heavy objects fall faster than light ones).
Feloneous
What was this guy thinking?
That we live in a country of laws, not "he who has the guns wins".
I skimmed over the law and, although IANAL, what I saw were restrictions on THE STATE, not on private citizens.
Feloneous
Either use "to whom you talk" or "who you talk to", but don't half-assed try to make yourself look English compliant when you just end up butchering the language.
Next we'll get into how spelling is a key component of communication and whether Times-Roman is far more readable than Courier...
This is Slashdot, not "where to bitch about other people's use of the English language".
Sheesh!
Feloneous
Email is quite frequently used in court cases to establish intent. intent. Hell, if it wasn't useful, then why is this story important?
Now I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that emails ARE important.
Feloneous
But there was someone there: the gamer. Now, the fact the WoW is full of dull boring sequences because the designers are, well to put it correctly, not very imaginative, is the problem.
Were they far more imaginative, the restrictions of the game WOULD BE THE GAME, not TOS. But because they can't conceive of a complex world, they have to come up with a complex TOS.
Unattended means someone is not there - not that someone is there and is boringly pushing a button (and so what if they are?). Seems to me that Blizzard is confusing people with bots.
Feloneous
Okay, Steve, enough bragging...
(Sad when CEOs have to pimp their own stores... just sad...)
Man, if there were EVER an article that Slashdotters weren't going to RTFA...
Why would I want to read the fucking advertisement?
Microsoft is on 95% of the computers and only 5% of the people who use it say they actually love it. The other 90% bitch and moan that there isn't an alternative. When you ask what they want to see, they say "something like Windows".
Really. I worked in an international company that hated the damn OS, but was a Microsoft-only shop. How screwed up is that?
How is this a step back? I guess the obvious escapes some people. The Apollo fire was caused by bad wiring and the unfortunate use of a pure oxygen atmosphere, not the booster. No, it was caused by the SAME BAD REASONING. The same reasoning that argues that "testing for success" is what Q/A is about (sigh). The Apollo 13 near disaster was again not a design flaw, but a miscommunication over a changed configuration when a service module was mishandled by North American. That IS a design flaw (communication is required for design). Worse, the problems they had with oxygen had to do with scrubbers being of two different shapes (round vs. not quite so round). The Shuttle's problems are indeed design flaws. It appears that with today's rocket technologies we cannot build a booster that will not shed debris during launch. Couple that with an exposed reentry vehicle and you have a LCAS event waiting to happen. All to make the pilots happy that they can "land" their brick on a runway. And yet everyone held their breath during the Gemini and Apollo reentry during the blackouts. Why? Because the fear of a catastrophe. Everyone seems to either a) not remember or b) not have been born to recall that those were not the days of "safe space travel". A helluva LOT OF MONEY went into NASA back them (adjusted for inflation). Imagine if instead of the shuttle we had focused on a reusable crew vehicle to put on top of a constantly evolving Saturn IB, while using the occasional Saturn V to loft things like space stations into orbit. Imagine that we continued to slash NASA's budget in the same way -- how many of those Saturn V's would have blown up on the pad? Or finally said "kill NASA -- it is too expensive". The point of the shuttle was to REDUCE costs. I think it is safe to say that we would have far more hours in orbit than we do today. I think you are drawing conclusions based on fantasy.
This design will be inexpensive (NASA is merely redirecting the shuttle buget plus a little extra), reuse existing components/industry, will be more powerful than any rocket ever designed, and will finally give us back the ability to put USEFUL stuff into space.
If I recall, the biggest bitch people had at the time of the Saturn V was how MUCH it cost to put stuff into orbit. The result was the shuttle was supposed to reduce this cost.
But, instead of using boosters WITHOUT gaskets (which could be built down the road) someone decided they needed pork. So the boosters had to be built in sections. Which required gaskets. Which resulted in the first big boom.
I remember when Grissom, White, and Chaffee died in the Apollo fire. I remember Apollo 13 (another near disaster). Don't tell me that this is a safer design. Heck, let's just start using statistics to lie with while we're at it.
And yes, it is a step back. NASA, as far as I'm concerned, is dead. It was supposed to be civilian, but has been slowly sucked into being part of the military.
This is nothing but bad news....
Why was parent modded troll?
Because the truth offends.
Unfortunately those with a "God complex" believe that you shall have no Doc but them (or they smite you with their lawyers).
Hmmmm.... maybe I will do that with my software from now on... anyone reports a bug and I sic my lawyer on them!
Hint: that's not a great way to gain credibility at the outset. Go ask your average young doctor how much they're paying in student loans, and see if the doctors' parking lot is really that different than the teachers' lot at the local high school.
The point of the headline was to get your attention (see, it got it?)...
As for your points, yes, my Doc tells me quite a lot about her practice and how the insurance companies screw them and how they are overworked. And you know what? I do believe her.
But I also know that there are many docs out there who shouldn't be... like the one that butchered my Grandmothers eye for routine cataract surgery. Or the one that stuffed a far sighted lens in my mom's eye when she is near sighted. Sorry, those folks are a menace to society. And there are worse...
I suspect that you do not feel that you are overpaid (in which case that headline should not offend). But like many fields, I know people in my field that ARE overpaid. As I am sure you do. And perhaps I am jumping to conclusions, but I suspect anyone who has the time to worry about their IMAGE is someone who is overpaid...
Bad programmer. He gets fired.
Bad Doctor. Nothing. But insurance rates go up.
Yah, the system seems fair.
Is the Walkman Generation Going Deaf?
Oh, man, my hearing IS going... I thought they said:
"Is the Walkman Generation Undead"...
Guess I bought the shotgun and chainsaw for nothin'...
Haven't you noticed yet that on the Intarweb you can use any vowel in place of any other ?
No. I have double-copyrighted "iFfect", "oFfect", "uFfect" and just for good measure, sometimes "yFfect".
The rest of you can now continue to confuse effect with affect.
Your pal Steve
Glass does not flow at room temperature.
You obviously have never lived in Texas...
Agreed. But Apple got hurt by their attempt with IBM to design a new CPU, especially when that CPU never took off except in Apple-built computers.
Actually, this was a brilliant business move at the time. Apple needed a new processor and the 68K was not going to cut it. For those who were still in the womb at the time, even Intel was trying to move towards a RISC processor (the x86 was a hack then and it is still a hack).
Even MS couldn't decide who to support - Sparc? Alpha? This PPC? Rumors had it that MS had begun transitioning to the PPC (mostly to kill any hopes of Rhapsody ever turning into a hit)... but didn't happen.
So, now we are back to the x86. Similar nasty design that a friend of mine in college (when the 8086 was first announced said "hey, come look at this abortion from Intel"). Going from an orthoganal instruction set to a non-orthoganal one... basically, it is a step backwards in evolution (if you look at computers having some form of evolution).
Perhaps in the future it will be looked at much as the panda's thumb - not really much of a thumb, but close enough... As for the PPC (with apologies to Douglas Adams) looks like a fish, steers like a fish, moves like a cow... sigh...
What *I* don't get is how it could be feasible for corporations but not cities.
Even though corporations would LOSE money for each install, they would make it up on VOLUME.
Padawan wannabe!
"Surprisingly, a full six percent indicated that they'd rather watch TV from cable or satellite than eat or have sex."
These were the 6 percent that just found out that Firefly was going to air on SciFi in its intended order.
In its INTENDED ORDER?!?!
Sweet!
Quantas...
After all, he was the guy who lost to Odysseus fighting over Achilles armor (you know, of the heel fame?). Later, he went mad and began slaughtering cows. He then killed himself.
Sadly, most people will think "what you cut dope with"...
We now power the thing on and... damn... I just made myself sterile.
Cold, saline liquid....
(Make mine cold, saline, Margarita!)
Screw ergonomics! My Nintendo thumb be damned! Here is my list of MUST-HAVE'S:
1. Clock (if it has power, it HAS to have a clock)
2. MP3 player
3. Phone
4. GPS (I'm sick and tired of saying "I'm at the Krispy Chiken" I want the goddamn phone/pda/mp3 player to tell them for me)
5. PDA - no wait, I mean PDS - personal digital secretary. That means if I'm screwing around on my wife, I want the goddamn thing to LIE for me.
6. 1600x1200 resolution. I'm sick of these dinky screens.
7. Surround sound. It's in the works. I want it now.
8. Stapler. I don't have one. The ankle-jerks here are too damn cheap to buy me one. I don't need one, but everyone else has one.
9. Alarm clock. A GOOD alarm clock. Not one of those dinky little "weee weee" ones that only wake you up if the fucker is glued to your ear.
10. CD/DVD player. Look, if you can put the damn 1600x1200 screen in, the CD/DVD should be a freakin' piece of cake.
11. It should fit in my pocket. No, not one of those giant coat pockets, but my shirt pocket.
Now, I'm not asking for ALL of these in the first version (except for the PDS - man, I gotta get somethin' that will lie like a mother for me).
12. Encryption. What the fuck is it that we have lameass encryption on phones? I want something better than the NSA can crack. Shiiit.
The idea of going that fast on land just doesn't seem to be too safe.
Meanwhile things going a WHOLE LOT FASTER are flying over your head.
Personally, I'll take the low road...
iMac was just another computer. But I realized Jobs had hit on something when my wife saw an ad for one and almost immediately went "I want one!".
I couldn't see what the big deal was (and I still have trouble understanding the big WHY). What counts is that there IS something that Jobs hit on.
As for the iPod, who knows? I have one and yes, it is dinky compared to other MP3 players. Yet I still like it.
As for the definition of cool: there is no definition. Something is cool because it is.